Garance Barbier

#bioacoustics
In-depth, fascinating work

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15

csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

The Biological Reality of Sex and Gender - Human Nature Human Nature - This paper challenges the social constructionist perspective on sex and gender, which argues that gender is solely shaped by cultural norms and that biological sex exists on a...

What the heck is this? Out in Human Nature today: "The Biological "Reality" [quotes mine] of sex and gender."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Researchers’ Desk – Seminar Series
On Wednesday at 12 noon, David Beerling will speak with us about enhanced weathering.

The Zoom link is: us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178.

Welcome!

JREC-IN | Positions Open: Postdoctoral researchers at the Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University イノベーション創出を担う研究人材のためのキャリア支援ポータルサイト

🔊 Job alert! 4 Postdocs open at the fantastic Centre for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (CAIS) at Hokkaido University (Japan).
Apply here: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...
Deadline: 18 February 2026 (Japanese time)
#AcademicSky #IndigenousSky #NativeSky

This is not a metaphor for #colonialism. It is colonialism. #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf And every minute it gets worse. Compounding with each new training instance. AI is being optimized for specific user base. Non-english speakers not "seen" in these tools.
#academicsky #AI #sciencesky

Do you want to become a Wallander Scholar at the Uppsala Economy and Society Lab, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University? Our department has opened a new call. #AcademicJobs #WallanderScholar #Sociology #UppsalaUniversity

Expert – Biodiversity and Nature in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark VACANCY NOTICE FOR POSITION OF Expert – Biodiversity and Nature (AD5)Reference no. EEA/AD/2026/1Please send us your application by no later than 3...

Please read the eligibility criteria carefully before applying. For example, you must be a national of one of the EEA member countries: jobs.eea.europa.eu/jobs/expert-...

Campaigners, overlooking Parliament in London, holding placards calling for an end to peat sales

Five people in front of No 10 Downing Street holding a petition box

Person in a bog costume with a box holding 16,742 signatures

Campaigners, overlooking Parliament in London, holding placards calling for an end to peat sales

We’re telling the Government to put an end to peat sales now! 📢

The destruction of peatlands has got to stop! We've handed in a petition with 16,000 signatures, calling for the government to ban peat sales in 2026.⚠️

Read more👇
https://loom.ly/KMRiz34

& email your MP to support

Cool topic! Was there a slide on some tips to survive the modern world?

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of complex AI-generated code. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas of how much code must be AI-generated... yet results are far from what was promised 1/

www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

Le sénateur Duplomb prétend que la filière des betteraviers pourrait disparaître si l’on n’autorise pas à nouveau l’acétamipride. Or, selon des chiffres déterrés par “Le Canard”, se passer de ce néonicotinoide n’a que peu d’impact sur les récoltes…
➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/qnyediqxrb

Ban Forever Chemicals Now Forever chemicals are poisoning Europe’s water, food, and even our blood. Chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections - but people across Europe are pushing back. Sign now to ban PFAS and put h...

PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Insect acoustic communication, yay! #bioacoustics
Such cool results

Intriguing! Does anyone at #bioacoustics know other species with the same biais?

Could we get a video to listen to the frogs? I am curious to hear how "tiny" they sound.

Merci!

Nice initiative! Tagging 🧪

Students turn bacterial math models into a game Students at Umeå University have transformed microbial dynamics into a game.

Students at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social turned bacterial math models into a playable game, BacMan, with IceLab researchers Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn & Eric Libby.
A fun way to explore microbial competition and cooperation!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/news/stud...
#scicomm

Must have been a lot to go through... Congrats!
tagging🔉

Seal pup

Koen de Reus recorded 1,000+ hours of pup calls for his PhD at our Institute and Radboud University, with @pieterburen.bsky.social He discovered seal pups take turns when they ‘talk’ and even develop local accents. Surprisingly human!

#LanguageEvolution #VocalLearning

An Atlantic Puffin stands on a narrow, rocky cliff ledge streaked with lichen and tufts of grass. Its black back and white chest contrast with the pale stone, and its bright orange bill catches the light. The blurred backdrop of steep coastal rock faces hints at a rugged seabird colony, one of the special coastal habitats that provide vital nesting sites for wildlife.

Which is why the habitats they fight to return to must be protected.

Weakening protections for key sites for nature would push our already struggling wildlife closer to collapse.

Yet the UK Government is considering doing just that.

Tell your MP to stop this: action.rspb.org.uk/page/186397/... ‼️

They produce this sound in the mound.
Not so interested in where they stridulate but more in what context. I did an experiment but I have hours of recordings to sift through... and a project to finish before I can dive into this question.
Stay tuned! 😉

Vidéo drôle et pédagogique. Quelles sources sont disponibles pour comprendre le fonctionnement de ces pesticides?
L'ARN c'est une molécule qui transporte de l'information génétique et qui ne fait rien toute seule🤔
Décevant de voir qu'on n'applique pas le principe de précaution.

Interesting! Tagging because it is about an acoustic repertoire #bioacoustics

An infographic titled “Nest Boxes for Robins & Wrens” shows a wooden open-front nest box positioned in dense vegetation. An inset image of a Robin highlights one of the species that benefit. The text advises placing open-front boxes low to the ground (no higher than 2m) and in well-hidden, sheltered locations to provide protection from predators.

This #NationalNestboxWeek, remember not all birds nest the same way!

Here's a few options to get you started...

Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover.

An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style.

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Thanks! It was really exciting to see in real time too

Stridulation-like behaviour in the Red Wood ant (Formica rufa) Insects are known for communicating via sounds created by rubbing body parts, a behaviour referred to as stridulation. Red Wood ants (Formica rufa group) are not known to possess stridulatory organ...

I do not know whether it was through the substrate or through the air. Both could be possible!
The Carpenter ants drum, while the sound I recorded from Red Wood ants is similar to stridulation, i.e. body parts being rubbed.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you want to read about our hypothesis

De nouveaux pesticides arrivent... YouTube video by Ami des lobbies

🧬 Pour un moratoire sur les #pesticides génétiques en Europe : signez la pétition ! ✊ www.youtube.com/shorts/9V6qs...

👉 mobilisation.pollinis.org/pesticides-g... ✍ 🎬 En partenariat avec Hadi Rassi et Jérémy Bismuth (Ami des Lobbies) 🐝

#bioacoustics
This youtube series is great, takes place in a wildlife sanctuary and you get to hear species you are not used to hear. Cute and fun!